Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barron Collier's procedure under the law was to submit a list of his liabilities and his assets to a Federal judge and ask for a meeting with his creditors. He owed $9,000,000 to his own companies and $4,500,000 to banks and other creditors. He valued his assets at $37,000,000. When the creditors meet, a majority of them may decide 1) to settle privately with Mr. Collier at so much on the dollar; 2) to try to collect in full by granting an extension of time or 3) to force Mr. Collier into...
...remained married. To free the divorced wife from those inconveniences and even deprivations which the married wife (and the husband, whether divorced or not.) must meet in times like these is simply to put a premium on divorce. Nearly every other sort of contract has been forced to submit to revision and scaling down. So three cheers for New York and its "new deal'' in alimonies...
...Federal Reserve member banks, make it optional with nonmember State banks. It was this arbitrary method of forcing big banks to stand sponsor for little banks that outraged Manhattan bankers. Big State banks in New York talked covertly of seceding from the Federal Reserve System rather than submit to such a levy. Even big national banks might exchange their Federal charters for State charters to escape from the Reserve. Such a withdrawal on a large scale might well wreck the whole Federal Reserve System and end an era in central bank history. On the other hand friends of the deposit...
...German Government and German people will not. however, under any circumstances, submit to being compelled to affix their signature to anything that would be tantamount to perpetuating Germany's disqualification. ... As a nation under perpetual stigma it also would be difficult for us to remain within the League of Nations...
...York's Senator Wagner handed them to President Roosevelt as the best composite thought of a swarm of Administration advisers. The President carried them with him on a quiet Sunday cruise down the Potomac, mulled over their details, began to think out a special message with which to submit them to Congress this week...